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Program Area: Educator Retention and Recruitment
Program Area: Special Education
ESS ensures that public education agencies in Arizona have special education programs, policies, and procedures that comply with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and i
Program Area: Special Education
The Arizona Department of Education pays for the educational services for students in institutional and residential settings through the voucher system.
Program Area: Special Education
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is acutely aware of the shortage of qualified special education teachers and related service providers across Arizona.
Program Area: Special Education
AAccessible Educational Materials (AEM)Alternate AssessmentsAssi
Program Area: Special Education
Program Area: Special Education
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Program Area: Information Technology
Integrity rule updates were made for -40004 and -40029.
Program Area: Special Education
Why does Arizona have an Exceptional Student Services (ESS) unit?Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), states are required to monitor the implementation of the IDEA
Program Area: Special Education
Please join us on Monday, June 7 from 1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. for “Demystifying ESS Programmatic Monitoring,” a collaborative presentation between ADE/ESS and the Arizona Association of School Psychologists (AASP).Together, leaders from ESS Program Supporting and Monitoring and AASP will provide clarification on some commonly misunderstood evaluation topics and share some tricks of the trade. This content is geared for evaluators and authors of evaluations, but all practitioners can benefit.
Program Area: Special Education
DATA MANAGEMENT ALERTESS Portal Update This notice is to inform Public Education Agencies (PEAs) about an upcoming update to the Exceptional Student Services (ESS) Portal.
Program Area: Special Education
The ADE/ESS Recruitment and Retention team is staffing a recruitment booth at the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) annual convention this week as part of our recruiting efforts on behalf of all Arizona PEAs. Each year, CEC draws thousands of preservice special education students, teachers, and related service providers.
Program Area: Special Education
Program Area: Special Education
Please see the following updates for Emotional Disabilities-Public (ED-P) programs in FY 25.
Program Area: Special Education
The Exceptional Student Services (ESS) Data Management team is pleased to introduce Beginning of the Year ESS Data Management training for the 2024–2025 reporting year. We offer two options to attend: virtually or in person.
Program Area: Special Education
DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT FY22 ESS Discipline Data Training Webinar ESS Data Management is hosting a training webinar for the ESS Discipline Data Collection (DDC) application on April 6, 2022, from 10:00am – 11:00am.
Program Area: Special Education
We are pleased to announce the ESS Annual Data Collection (ADC) application is open and available to all public education agencies (PEAs). PEAs are expected to complete this data collection requirement electronically, utilizing ADEConnect to access the online application via the ESS Portal for FY 2021.
